Robert Breault Quotes

See yourself always as cause, and perhaps a better world will be found among your effects.

What greater blessing to give thanks for at a family gathering than the family and the gathering.

As important as shared memories is the silent agreement that certain things never happened.

In the end there doesn't have to be anyone who understands you. There just has to be someone who wants to.

In a houseful of toddlers and pets, you can start out having a bad day, but you keep getting detoured.

Life is a process by which a few desperate longings morph into a thousand meaningless wants.

An old dog, even more than an old spouse, always feels like doing what you feel like doing.

To the student I would say, "Life is principally multiple choice, but at the end there's a tough essay question.

Some forgive and forget, more forgive and remember, most forgive and remind.

Sometimes two people need to step apart and make a space between that each might see the other anew, in a glance across a room or silhouetted against the moon.

On the sixth day, God created the artist, realizing no doubt that He had far from exhausted the uses of color.

To have success, you can't let failure stop you. To have great success, you can't let success stop you.

You never get people's fuller attention than when you're listening to them.

Man, in his sensitivity, does not give names to animals he intends to eat but goes on giving names to children he intends to send to war.

There are days when I'm alone with my thoughts, which is to say, not alone enough.

I don't lie and cheat, but I don't always avoid actions that would be lying and cheating if someone else did them.

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you, not forgetting to leave others be as you would have them leave you be.

I enjoy many silent moments with my cat, a conversation always resumed exactly where left off.

Sometimes it's worth getting lost to see who will come looking for us.

Life is a series of tasks that you absolutely must get done before they don't matter any more.

An optimist is someone who figures that if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's the bluebird of happiness.

Once a man has won a woman's love, the love is his forever. He can only lose the woman.

As any artist can tell you, it is easier to reach perfection than to stop there.

A rule that cannot be bent will certainly be broken.

Never ask, "What reason do I have to be happy?" Instead ask, "To what purpose can I attach my happiness?

Life becomes easier when learn to accept the apology you never got.

From an aunt, long ago: "Death has come for me many times but finds me always in my lovely garden and leaves me there, I think, as an excuse to return.

Sometimes an answer not yet blowin' in the wind is stirring in the breeze.

I don't believe you really know God if you do not recognize His sense of humor.

You know you have found love when you can't find your way back.

In childhood, we yearn to be grown-ups. In old age, we yearn to be kids. It just seems that all would be wonderful if we didn't have to celebrate our birthdays in chronological order.

Material success is always tempered by the recollection that there was some kind of happiness that was supposed to come with it.

Learn to listen. It's amazing the ideas that pop into your head while people are saying them into your ear.

The trouble with always leaving yourself a way out is that you always take it.

The shy and the extroverted have this in common — that they both fancy they are the center of attention.

In every gardener there is a child who believes in The Seed Fairy.

There are times when two people need to step apart from one another, but there is no rule that says they have to turn and fire.

My eyesight's gone, my reflexes are shot, and I can't stay awake, but thank God I can still drive.

Being loved by all is little fun Unless you're also loved by one.

You always think you could have done more. That's why you need a friend - to tell you you did all you could.

The great enemy of achievement is a schedule already full.

When there is hell to pay, it is usually cheaper to pay it than to finance an endless purgatory.

Though confined to our destiny, we do get to pick the color scheme.

To truly forgive is to allow the other person to forget.

When I am gone, my love, do not look for me in the places we used to go to together. Look for me in the places we always planned to go to together.

One of the great logical puzzles is how a woman is always like her mother but never like her sister.

To the artist, the Book of Genesis is an account of six days in which God suggested some really good ideas.

Dare to be imperfect and one day there will tug at your sleeve a soulmate.